No Time to Waste – A project to actively deal with sustainability Erasmus Project

Project Title

No Time to Waste – A project to actively deal with sustainability

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Energy and resources; Environment and climate change; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions

Project Summary

No time to Waste – a project to actively deal with sustainability

Project Description

We generally agree on that people should start sustainable thinking. We should act more sustainably, live more sustainably. Everything should be more sustainable.
We asked ourselves what SUSTAINABILITY actually means and how we could integrate it easily and effectively into our everyday life.
Basically, sustainability means considering how the things we do impact on our environment. It means trying to preserve things as they are or to improve them in a compatible way.
The basic idea and the objective of the project “No Time to Waste – a project to actively deal with sustainability” is to develop and raise consciousness of European awareness. It is the promotion of insight for the need to devote attention to environmental issues across the entire range, especially among young people to educate their general mind-set.
By selecting a range of topics close to the young people’s lives now and in their future, we want to stimulate critical, creative and innovative thinking. Practical experience will open up mind and emotion for sensibility and feasibility of sustainable living. This should take place in a common European context, since awareness and resolution of environmental issues must always be embedded in global thinking.

For us, to actively deal with sustainability means nothing less than:

1. Re-Think (to observe and to understand, because only than there will be a re-thinking)
2. Reduce (to consciously reduce consumption)
3. Re-Use (to re-use things, not to just re-buy them)
4. Repair (to repair things, not to throw them away)
5. Up-Cycle (to let the old shine in new splendor)
6. Recycle (to dispose off properly, to recycle resources)

Sustainability affects all the areas of our everyday life. We have identified six areas of interest for the development of activity modules in our project:

1. shopping, nutrition, cooking
2. health and hygiene (cosmetics etc.)
3. mobility, traveling, vacation
4. repairs and up-cycling
5. home and house-keeping (fresh, clean, sustainable, without chemicals, etc.)
6. resources, energy, recycling, art from waste or junk, zero waste

Apart from observing how the individual countries deal with sustainability, we would like to offer dedicated activity modules implemented by the countries. Each country is responsible for a single module and takes care of it with the project participants on site. The partners mutually agree on which aspects of sustainability of the respective area are relevant and can be easily implemented in everyday life, i.e. are particularly profitable.
For this project, we will deliberately select less privileged students (5 students and 2 teachers per mobility). Students who do not have any degree or only a weak degree attending middle school courses of education. Our experience shows that, in general, these students are widespread unaware of the issues of environmental protection. Also, projects are often mainly open to stronger students and the weaker cannot participate.
However, it is often the weaker who benefit enormously from project activities and noticeably develop their skills and personality.

The dedicated modules will help to reveal the underlying global relationships and to transfer sustainable behavior in a simple way into everyday life. Collaboration with project partners of other European countries of the same age will reinforce the ideas of a united Europe and foster the discovery of a far-reaching dimension of the topic.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 186890 Eur

Project Coordinator

RBZ Eckener-Schule Flensburg & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Liceo Scientifico Statale E. Fermi
• CVO PENTA college CSG Jacob van Liesveldt
• Stredna odborna skola polytechnicka, Ul. SNP 2 Zlate Moravce
• Liceul Teoretic German Johann Ettinger
• Røyken videregående skole